- CHARACTERISTICS
- The males reach a length of 2.2 metres, and weight 275 kg. Females can reach up to 1.8 metres, and weigh 90 kg.
Their colour ranges from chocolate brown in the males to a lighter golden brown in the females. With their characteristic puppy face, at around five years of age the males develop a bone in the cranium called a saggital crest. They have external ears and large fins with which to walk when out of water.
- DIET
- Their diet consists of squid, octopus and fish.
- REPRODUCTION
- Normally they have one pup which weighs around 6 kg when born. The mothers care for the pup for the next 6 to 12 months, in the Galapagos sub-species they look after them for 10 to 12 months.
The gestation period lasts 11 months.
- CURIOSITIES
- They are known for their intelligence, playfulness and loud bark.
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- NAME
- Sea Lion
- HABITAT
- Pacific Ocean, North American coast
- SCIENTIFIC NAME
- Zalophus californianus
- SPICE
- Mammals
- DIET
- Carnivorous
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